Improvement in fishing-lines



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FERDINANDO E. FORSTER, OF YORK, N. Yi

` IMPROVEMENT lN FISHING-LINES.

Specification forming part of YLetters Patent No. 135,900, dated February 1S, 18713.

To all rwhom it may concern.-

Beit known that ,'I, FERDINANDO E. Fons- TER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improved Gimp-Gut for Fishing Purposes, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to a fishing-line 5 and consists in a line having a bodj7 of oss silk, made from about eighty-four ends, comprising three strands, which are twisted separately and' then twisted together, after which operation the cord so formed is covered with twist silk, and next the whole is saturated or steeped in a bath of balsam of tir, which renders it impervious to water, and in which it is allowed to remain for about a Week. It is next taken out of the bath, the surplus balsam of fir is re- Witnesses:

ALBERT G. FoRsTER, ARTHUR NEILL. 

